freezer door pops open
Again, not a Q strictly related to electronics but this group is the closest fit.
I have a GE GTS22KCMBRCC (top-freezer) refrigerator. After a couple of months it developed a minor but annoying habit: when the main compartment door is closed firmly the freezer door pops open. I don't have a problem cultivating the habit of closing both doors at once but I've got two absent-minded school age kids and they're not picking up on this. How do I go about diagnosing or fixing this? /ff |
freezer door pops open
FearlessFerret wrote: Again, not a Q strictly related to electronics but this group is the closest fit. I have a GE GTS22KCMBRCC (top-freezer) refrigerator. After a couple of months it developed a minor but annoying habit: when the main compartment door is closed firmly the freezer door pops open. I don't have a problem cultivating the habit of closing both doors at once but I've got two absent-minded school age kids and they're not picking up on this. How do I go about diagnosing or fixing this? Is the unit level or tilted slightly to the rear? If not correct that. Otherwise, you don't have to fix anything. Call your dealer or GE for a warranty repair. David, on the Illinois prairie. |
freezer door pops open
FearlessFerret wrote:
Again, not a Q strictly related to electronics but this group is the closest fit. I have a GE GTS22KCMBRCC (top-freezer) refrigerator. After a couple of months it developed a minor but annoying habit: when the main compartment door is closed firmly the freezer door pops open. I don't have a problem cultivating the habit of closing both doors at once but I've got two absent-minded school age kids and they're not picking up on this. How do I go about diagnosing or fixing this? /ff I've always wondered about why this usually DOESN"T happen. Is the magnetic gasket dirty, wet, corroded? Do fridge/freezers have some sort of air bladder to equalize the pressure and prevent one door from swinging open when the other is slammed? If so, maybe this device is stuck/frozen/blocked, or otherwise malfunctioning. |
freezer door pops open
"FearlessFerret" wrote in message ... Again, not a Q strictly related to electronics but this group is the closest fit. I have a GE GTS22KCMBRCC (top-freezer) refrigerator. After a couple of months it developed a minor but annoying habit: when the main compartment door is closed firmly the freezer door pops open. I don't have a problem cultivating the habit of closing both doors at once but I've got two absent-minded school age kids and they're not picking up on this. How do I go about diagnosing or fixing this? /ff Go to an appliance store. Pick a model at random and firmly close the freezer (or fridge) door. You should see the other door move outward slightly. It doesn't come flying open, though. Why? The magnetic strip in the door seal is working properly. Could it be that your absent-minded, school-age kids might have decided it would be cool to wave another magnet around the door seal? That could demagnetize the seal strip. Alternatively, do you perhaps have a TV set sitting on top of your fridge (or on a countertop right next to it)? It's possible with enough on-off cycles and a sufficiently strong coil, the TV's degaussing coil could eventually demagnetize the door seal strip. |
freezer door pops open
"Ray L. Volts" wrote in message news:Su6ef.7461$9T4.1872@trnddc04... "FearlessFerret" wrote in message ... Again, not a Q strictly related to electronics but this group is the closest fit. I have a GE GTS22KCMBRCC (top-freezer) refrigerator. After a couple of months it developed a minor but annoying habit: when the main compartment door is closed firmly the freezer door pops open. I don't have a problem cultivating the habit of closing both doors at once but I've got two absent-minded school age kids and they're not picking up on this. How do I go about diagnosing or fixing this? /ff Go to an appliance store. Pick a model at random and firmly close the freezer (or fridge) door. You should see the other door move outward slightly. It doesn't come flying open, though. Why? The magnetic strip in the door seal is working properly. Could it be that your absent-minded, school-age kids might have decided it would be cool to wave another magnet around the door seal? That could demagnetize the seal strip. Alternatively, do you perhaps have a TV set sitting on top of your fridge (or on a countertop right next to it)? It's possible with enough on-off cycles and a sufficiently strong coil, the TV's degaussing coil could eventually demagnetize the door seal strip. Btw, strong speakers, a powerful fan motor, etc. placed near the strip could yield the same result. |
freezer door pops open
Stop slamming the door!
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freezer door pops open
Charles Schuler wrote:
Stop slamming the door! It might help if you stabilized the fridge to the wall at the back, it stops the case from moving to much, and the slam would not influence the other door so much(it is the frame suddenly moving away from the other door wich causes that one to open). |
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